ACE Initiative Update

Multidisciplinary Métis artist and community arts educator Moe Clark visited St. Lawrence Elementary school in Candiac on April 6 to work with grade 3 students. Together, they created soundscapes for their ACE project in conjunction with Cedar Street in Beloeil and Kateri School in Kahnawakhe.

The students had previously worked with artist and teacher Diane Gendron to create small canoes with canvas and paint, while students at Kateri School created canoes with traditional beading techniques.

Moe’s work with the students continued the theme of waterways, and linking the communities through the rivers that flow between them. Her very dynamic two-hour workshop led students to explore how to make sounds, vibrations and music using their own bodies and voices.
For more information about the ACE Initiative, click here.

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.